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Eastern Neighbourhood Small Projects Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme will provide the mechanism for embassies to develop small projects to further the aims of the Country Business Plans and develop learning to support wider programming initiatives, with the overall aims of supporting development in the region. This is part of the FCDO’s official development assistance and falls under the OECD DAC ODA rules.
Strengthening Global Architecture for Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and Sexual Harassment (PSEAH)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
SEAH is an abuse of the power imbalances which exist in the delivery of humanitarian, development and peace work. Failing to safeguard against SEAH will increase the likelihood that people are harmed, undermine the integrity and effectiveness of all ODA, and damage trust in FCDO and our partners. FCDO aims to improve efforts to protect against SEAH at global, local and victim-survivor level. This programme covers our global work and will provide targeted resources over five years to: 1) Scale up, pilot and implement PSEAH global tools, cross sector initiatives and approaches; 2) Support PSEAH coordination and multistakeholder dialogue to address common challenges and to improve collective action; 3) Seek the PSEAH tools and ‘global public goods’ of the future through research and pilots to address critical gaps in evidence on what works to prevent and respond to SEAH in different contexts.
Ukraine Economic Stabilisation Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
HM Government will guarantee a further $3bn in World Bank lending to the Government of Ukraine over 2024-27. This will support the financing of the Government of Ukraine's budget, by increasing the amount that the World Bank can lend to Ukraine. The support represents the UK's contribution to a wider financing commitment from international donors which helped unlock Ukraine's IMF programme in March 2023, effective for four years. The package marks a shift from ad-hoc unpredictable funding to structured multi-year assistance, tied to the broader objectives of creating the conditions to win the peace through recovery, reform and growth.
Future-fit Food Policy Fund (FFPF)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Future-fit Food Policy Fund (FFPF) enables GFAL to support strategic, time-bound international action to tackle hunger and extreme poverty and support analytical work that will inform future central programming priorities. A key channel is the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty (GAHP) to be launched by Brazil at the G20 in November 2024.
ONE Caribbean Fund Facility
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
to promote sustainable development in the Caribbean by identifying and delivering ambitious initiatives across four areas: (a) climate adaptation, disaster risk management and resilience; (b) citizen security; (c) private sector engagement; and (d) food security. The programme will achieve this through supporting, influencing and leveraging the Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB) recently launched ‘ONE Caribbean’ regional strategic framework. ONE Caribbean will be directly implemented in the IDB borrowing member countries in the region (Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, The Bahamas, and Trinidad and Tobago) as well as indirectly implemented in six Eastern Caribbean countries through an agreement in place between IDB and the Caribbean Development Bank (a successful example of collaboration between MDBs).
Social Protection for Inclusion, Resilience, Innovation and Transformation
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Laying the foundations for reform of more inclusive social systems in Ukraine via: • Building capacity and capabilities (technical, financial and institutional) needed to catalyse and enable reform of social protection system and services; • Improving coordination between key government and non-governmental stakeholders to unlock investment and foster greater alignment; and • Modelling innovation through development and piloting of inclusive, evidence-based contextualised solutions that inform the transformation of Ukraine’s social systems.
Somaliland Development Fund (SDF) Phase III Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Somaliland Development Fund (SDF3) (<£5M in 25/26) will build on interventions initiated under SDF2, ensuring continuity and delivery of planned outcomes while maintaining UK visibility and strategic influence. The programme retains flexibility to operate in strategic sectors such as climate-smart agriculture, the blue economy, and renewable energy – all areas critical to Somaliland’s long-term resilience and inclusive growth. SDF3 will also test small-scale governance reform pilots, embedding technical adviser (s) within targeted Somaliland institutions to trial innovative approaches to green economic policymaking. By working directly with communities, the programme will also strengthen citizen-state accountability. This dual approach will help build climate resilience and improve livelihoods across both rural and urban areas, while informing the design of the future Somaliland portfolio.
South Sudan Humanitarian Assistance and Resilience Programme (SSHARP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This Programme will save lives and alleviate poverty through providing live saving humanitarian assistance, strengthen protection and promote access to basic services to conflict affected population, rebuild resilience and protect the most vulnerable people particularly women, girls and people living with disability.
Enhancing Gender Outcomes through Social Services Systems Strengthening (Samartha)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme will focus on improving the systems and capacity of local government to deliver its social service mandates with a specific focus on improving access to quality health and education services, especially by women, girls and excluded groups. This will be complemented with national policy support in the Health and Education sectors to ensure sector policies and resource allocations align to support Nepal in building responsive and resilient Health and Education systems.
Resilience, Adaptation and Inclusion in Nepal (RAIN) Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Resilience, Adaptation and Inclusion in Nepal (RAIN) programme is a significant investment by the UK to support Nepal’s climate change adaptation and disaster risk management efforts. The programme is aligned with UK’s International Development Strategy and various international climate commitments. It aims to build the resilience of vulnerable communities in Nepal by strengthening government systems, mobilising climate finance, and enhancing social protection mechanisms.
UK Humanitarian Support in Palestine.
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The “Humanitarian Support in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs)” programme aims to improve the resilience of households to mitigate the consequences of the protracted protection crisis in the OPTs; save lives during emergency spikes, for example a flare up in violence; and prevent a further deterioration in the humanitarian situation until a more durable political solution is reached.
Poverty Reduction Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The UK/Zambia Poverty Reduction Program (ZPRP) aims to catalyse and lock in new approaches to sustainable poverty reduction in Zambia. It builds on decades of UK support for social protection, and broader human development support including nutrition, adolescent and sexual reproductive health, and education. It also harnesses new political commitment to decentralisation to strengthen systems of service delivery and shift the politics of development towards greater accountability and responsiveness. The programme is specifically targeted at empowering women and girls: increasing attainment of a full 12 years of education, better sexual and reproductive health, improved nutrition, and maximising the positive contribution of a youthful population to Zambia’s future.
Ethiopia Crises 2 Resilience (EC2R)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Ethiopia Crises to Resilience (EC2R) programme is aimed to alleviate the impact of the conflict and drought to the poorest Ethiopians. The programme tries to address urgent humanitarian needs while maintaining the delivery of essential services across the country.
Commonwealth Veteran's Welfare Programme for ODA Eligible Countries
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To provide commonwealth veterans and their widows/widowers from ODA eligible countries, who worked for British Armed Forces before their countries gained independence, now living in poverty, with two meals a day through a 5 year cash transfer programme.
Getting children ready to learn and thrive - Research into implementing effective and quality Early Childhood Development at scale
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The THRIVE Early Childhood Development research programme will deliver research on how to implement effective ECD interventions at scale in LMICs. Through an innovative model of research co-designed and aligned to DFID country programmes, THRIVE will support four DFID bilateral programmes to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of ECD interventions emdedded in their education and human development programmes, and commission globally-relevant research into optimal ECD service delivery and scale up strategies. Through the proposed COVID-19 pivot, the programme will generate real time evidence on impact of Covid-19 on young children's learning and development, and test at scale innovation on approaches to mitigate the crisis of learning and care. This programme directly responds to the manifesto commitment on girls' education.
Support to the Global Agriculture and Food Security Programme (GAFSP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To improve agricultural productivity in developing countries and to increase farmers' access to markets whilst increasing the economic resilience of poor people globally
Building Resilience and Addressing Vulnerability to Emergencies (BRAVE)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
BRAVE aims to improve community resilience to climate change and the capacity of key government institutions responsible for delivering climate resilience, including systems for adaptive and shock responsive social protection.
Support to Social Protection Programme 2 (SSPP2)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To support the Government of Mozambique to develop a bigger, better and more shock responsive social protection system. SSPP2 will help poor and vulnerable people meet their basic needs and cope better with crises through social protection. It will expand the Government of Mozambique’s social protection programmes to deliver more cash transfers to the most vulnerable. It will provide technical assistance to improve social protection programme delivery and value for money, making government programmes more efficient, effective and equitable. It will develop government capacity to respond to crises quickly and effectively through the national social protection system. The programme will leverage additional donor and government resources of about £70m per year. Ultimately, SSPP2 will support the creation of a sustainable, nationally owned system to redistribute revenues from gas that Mozambique is expected to start earning in the next decade.
St Helena Economic Development Investment Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Supporting economic development in St Helena through enhanced dialogue on policy reforms, infrastructure development and through harnessing private investment opportunities.
Building Resilience and an Effective Emergency Refugee Response (BRAER)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The programme will provide emergency life-saving assistance to the large influxes of refugees arriving in Uganda, build resilience among refugees and their host communities to reduce Uganda’s humanitarian burden, and deliver on UK Humanitarian Reform priorities. It will support the UK in its leadership role to develop new approaches to protracted crises and in delivering on the New York Declaration’s Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework, with regional and global impact.
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